Ben Harper - We Need to Talk About It (Lyric Video)

[@v.g.5185]

I was born in 03-03-93... one year after Rodeney King beating on the streets... 10 years after, I was listening to "Like a king " and couldn't understand nothing bcs i'm Brazilian. Then... when i was 29, youtube send me your presentation on NOVA radio and, again, "Like a king". That hurt me so bad, knowing that in 30 years, nothing changed... "looking to the past and learning how much has to burn"... Now... I'm 30, and yesterday listening to "Excuse me mr.", Again YT surprises me with your presentation to ARTE 1, what soulfull and gifted presentation, Ben! Thank you for delivering so many necessary messages in a such beautifull way. Thank you! Gretings from Brazil! Looking foward to see you here in RJ

[@angelrenate]

"Whoever said time heals all wounds wasn't a slave." 💯

[@florider7451]

Neither was he. Just sayin. It's divisive and not helping our country right now

[@angelrenate]

@@florider7451 This country has ALWAYS been divided. Acknowledging the division is not the problem. Ignore it and see how well that works out. Working out great so far right? What a utopia we live in.

[@florider7451]

@@angelrenate We ALL acknowledge it so now what? I'm a big fan of Ben and have traveled the country to see him many times, I love his message generally, this seems too political

[@willykayak]

@@florider7451 do we only have the conversations that are comfortable? There's a difference between revolutionary and political, perhaps you haven't been really listening to Mr Harper's music after all.

[@willykayak]

The divisiveness has always been there. If not now, when? The change has been put off for far too long. The children demand it. ✊🏾

[@debbiearnold4515]

We’re ALL chained to something. All lives matter 🙏

[@buckfuhtt2083]

Hey man, I've been trying to catch a video of yours this early. I used to work at Yale Avenue market in the meat dept. I was just a 19 yr old kid back then, wired for sound and no give a f*** to speak of. I started seeing your stuff popping up on my KZbin about 2 years ago and was like "Ben Harper, that sounds familiar". Come to find out everyone who plays guitar and is in the know, knows who you are man. I'm glad you found success, you sure we're working hard at it when you worked across the street at the music center. I still play guitar and have recently started repairing guitars and trying my hand at slide. Anyway, congratulations on your success and you are as good as we all kinda knew you would be. Just a ghost from the past saying "Hey".

[@wordzfailmebro]

Cool comment. 🐨👍

[@po-pil-sky9862]

What the Buck! Ben may not be main stream "success" but in my humble lowly opinion, he is a musical LEGEND, my man. Been creating some of the best music for thirty years!

[@wordzfailmebro]

@@po-pil-sky9862 agreed.

[@familyofsix2001]

Very cool, Buck. Small world too…I was down the road working at Some Crust Bakery as a teenager myself back in the late 80’s when Ben was still at CHS. I’ve always enjoyed his music.

[@wordzfailmebro]

@@familyofsix2001 cool story. Ben is such a nice guy. And his music is incredible.

[@sergiodavid5147]

Guitar solos in this song and album are hands down of amazing taste!

[@samsama3271]

Merci pour votre enseignement, Mr Harper.

[@johnbueno1]

Back to thé basic of ben !!! Teacher and groove !

[@lilaalahyane6343]

Que de la bonne musique avec Ben harper.....

[@mpd9695]

Great song, great video. That animation is killer!

[@aurelienchiorino684]

El Mejor , The Greatest, El Maestro, Le meilleur

[@adelemussi7450]

Grande Ben Harper.....❤

[@larrylynch8113]

Glad I am here so early ; awesome work as always

[@reneeg9406]

Compassion and forgiveness I agree we need to talk about. Slavery needs to be taught and understood, but at the same time we need to move forward. At this point there are more people that have come into this country after slavery was abolished then there are people who have families that actually owned slaves. It doesn't erase what happened, but how can you blame someone for something that their family had no part of just because of skin color? And why do the sins of the father passed on to the son? Or great great grandson as the case may be😘

[@nathaliedf1]

What does dit say about all of us.. human matter! Lets talk about justice,fairness.. 🥰🙏🤩🙏😘😘😘😘

[@gliazelle2949]

There is much more behind and yes we must change the hell what's going on more and more again Teamwork free minds free hearts and real souls... let us do it time to change for real...

[@Liliayaly7633]

Le son est excellent !👌

[@Wizzyinlove]

What a song! Hope you will play it during your next concerts 💞

[@karazishibotan9451]

MASTER☮︎PEACE

[@caromzen3992]

Waouahhhh Thank U so much for thos New perfect sound,... 🙏💖 Conscious for everybody

[@piernicoladonvito670]

Gran bel pezzo! Grazie Ben . . Mi hai fatto venire l'acquolina per il disco 🌹😋💯

[@lucarambaldi2731]

FUNKACCIO DA OLD SCHOOL

[@tacknrollmusicdiary4610]

Are Chavonne & Alithea Jackson Browne's backvocal?🧐 Their Cool harmony remind me of 60's and the feeling of the time when peaple were thinking about freedom & human rights. Last lyrics " Slavely " sting in my heart. Good work😍 Ben played all instruments... great🤩

[@tacknrollmusicdiary4610]

slavely→slavery 😅

[@zohair4015]

! Great Ben Harper!

[@johnfrary9589]

Saw you play at Brixton academy years ago, man you have some talent

[@pelagus66]

Bellissimo sound, la tua voce fa sognare, purtroppo sulla giustizia e sull'equità non sarà l'ultima ce ne saranno altre di canzoni, sei un big.

[@gillakz6474]

🤩🤩🤩Magic sound!.. 🙏🏽Thank you Ben!! ❤️🏳️‍🌈

[@sweeting9609]

I can imagine Malcolm X co-authoring and then dancing to this song! Our bards flex their maturity in Ben.

[@BellaFirenze]

Bravo!

[@zl9388]

Amazing sound! Juste love u!

[@gliazelle2949]

We need to change no matters wish colour or how much money...

[@spirit76sf]

Merci 🙏

[@marcoromani9030]

Sono 20 anni che lo seguo... Un grande...

[@abisaguecavalcanti]

Perfect! 👏😍

[@khadidialeroux3165]

Good good lyrics !!!👊🏾

[@floseul]

Eh oui ça y'est ça sort le 22 juillet en France. J'ai trop hâte ça va slider en mode funky 🎸👍

[@neuzaalves9470]

👏👏👏

[@libilisteningheart4812]

Brilliant!

[@leblondgregory8677]

Quand le prochain album ??

[@floseul]

Ça sent un nouvel album pour 2022 ?

[@monicacosi6627]

That's a significant msg for the 🌎, I super❤️ this sound 🎸, the voice of Ben is as powerful as it is delicate in his style. fun kjj

[@refractorymercury]

Nice video, Every time I hear Redemption Song I think to my ancestors and relatives slaves of the arabs, God bless Stephen Decatur

[@reflectingtrees6173]

Rawe!

[@MrPatrickslovell]

Magnificent!

[@felipeayres.r7065]

Brother incrível esse som

[@wordzfailmebro]

G'DAY BEN . WE MISS YOU HERE IN PERTH MATE✌🐨👽👍

[@terryamstutz2028]

Once again Mr Harper tells it like it is! Great job. Fabulous song.

[@vie8894]

LOVE THIS NEW SONG🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊⭐1️⃣🌏

[@PresDesCimesLoinDesC]

Great text hope people with a big P will read and hear it As for "Excuse me Mister"

[@Chellestastic]

Great as always. Pretty great line re Christianity and racism being opposing forces. That'll hurt their feelings. Good :)

[@emmanuelleteyssonneyre4030]

❤🔥🙏

[@yayal1970]

💚💛❤❣🖤

[@gliazelle2949]

🫂🪽the wounds r allways there means not we should giving up for the real right way.

[@bryanfigueroa4476]

my father!!

[@abasin08]

🤙🏼

[@mararonzoni4080]

✌🏻

[@P4Eight]

All lives Matter to God Almighty. Thank you Jesus!

[@Pacifiq_Ocean_Music_Live]

It is necessary to keep talking about it and always remember how much pain humans caused to other humans in history. European colonialists and conquerors more than anybody else.

[@ariaxrose1]

Middle easterners enslaved Africans for a thousand years before Europeans did and continued till after slavery was abolished in the us. It still happens today. The last slaves in America were all owned by native Americans

[@BlueHopi144]

check who runs most Industries & u will find the culprits ....the same are behind 9/11 and the PLANDEMIC ......ITS not the Colonialists ....its the BANKSTERS .

[@petecanthropus9947]

Well said. But I wouldn't forget the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Aztecs (whose many subdued/slaved nations helped the Spaniards to fight the Aztecs, since they saw those strange white men as their liberators from the Aztecs tyranny), several African Kingdoms of the XVI century which made business delightfuly capturing inland black slaves to sell them to the Europeans (FYI they already were doing that long before the Europeans came), the XVIIIth and XIXth century Americans who almost completely killed the native population, Rwuanda's mutual genocides Tutsis and Hutus, the XXth century Americans who devastated and/or contributed to the total political, economical and social collapse of countries like Japan, Germany, Irak, Libia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Corea, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and fostered South American dictatorships in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile, post-colonialism, free Brazil, Chile and Argentina, whom in 1882 formed an alliance to devastate Paraguay (then the wealthier state in South America), XIXth century post-colonialism, free Uruguay and Argentina who commited genocide against their native populations, XXth century Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Stalin's Russia, the Japan genocide against Chinese people, the Turks genocide against Armenians, etc etc etc. I'd even say that all of we, today's living Homo Sapiens Sapiens as a whole, should feel guilty and kill ourselves for having caused the Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis extinction. We must keep on talking forever about these things and nothing else, keeep them on the everyday agenda, pretend that we´re still living and suffering all those realities ourselves, in our present lifetimes, at the same time victims and/or responsibles of all what "humanity" has suffered/done in the past, keep the flame of guilt, pain, hate and resentment alive, otherwise, how could politcians and activists (of whatever ideology) keep their jobs ?

[@do7hemath937]

Happy Juneteenth! Each 1 teach 1.

[@ariaxrose1]

You need Thomas sowell in your life

[@CharliePrunet]

Picture. Please guys I need help I'm lost

[@KeturahTori]

#HearBeforeAMillionClub #HereBeforeAMillionClub #HearB4AMillionClub #HereB4AMillionClub

[@vie8894]

SLAVERY IS ONE OF THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD

[@harperthesealioness4064]

Bruh my name is Harper!!!):

[@gliazelle2949]

They tried to kill me a lot of times and they done more hell... not new or... no matter wish coulor or religion...

[@aWesoMe8888]

What Ya Gonna Do????

[@thierrynoirtault2367]

[@socifolle4268]

You wasnt a slave either.

[@gliazelle2949]

🕊🪽🫂🪽🕊🪽

[@vie8894]

IT'S SHOULD NOT EXIST

[@whiskeyfx_7893]

🙄

[@Roflcrabs]

Jeez this blows, it's insanely blatant like a PSA or lecture to funky background music. Sorry Ben, I'm out for good. Peace.

[@milk1oast]

wa lk7looooch sad 3lina lpark kaml mamlkhlina ta ndkhlo nskatiw w kathdr 3la l7orya

[@windowcleaningportland]

I've seen Ben about 7 times. This is the first time I wished I hadn't gotten tickets. I'm disappointing. "Either your christian or racist" That makes me sad he thinks that.

[@reneeg9406]

I've always loved most of your music. I love the beat and the feel to this one. However, lyrically, I feel that you're helping to further the divide. I understand history. And I understand the difference between BLM the movement, and BLM the organization. And people may hate me for being a white woman saying this, but I believe that the more you look backwards, the more likely you are to trip moving forward. There is no denying that atrocities were done. But I refused to allow anyone to make me feel responsible for the decisions of people from before I was born. Or from people who happened to be the same skin color as me. A minute and a half in and I feel like you are wanting me to be guilty for being white. But I am not in the one percent. "I refuse to feel guilty for 💩I didn't do" Where would we get these reparations from? How many families of color are doing better now than certain families of whites? There may have been additional hurdles, but how many have surpassed those hurdles? And how many whites are in the mix of people who never will? Your attitude determines your altitude. No matter what "extra advantages" you were/were not given to start with. Love you music. Contributing for the algorithm. But can't exactly support this particular message🤷‍♀️

[@doncolesrockhistory1012]

I totally agree with you Renee. And his line "Whoever Said Time Heals All Wounds Wasn't A Slave" is pure crap. Neither HIM nor anybody else ALIVE at this point in time WAS EVER A SLAVE. I've always liked Ben Harper's music and supported it in the past . . . But I can't support this. All He is doing is "pointing fingers of blame on White men and women who HAD NOTHING to do with slavery years ago.

[@theshamanxx]

If you don’t know where you came from you cannot truly understand where you are going to.

[@karlittopouzet5842]

Hi Renee, To me you are not a "white woman", you're Renee a fellow human expressing her feelings and that is what freedom is about. I think however, that you should give it a second listening. The song interogate everyone ("And what does it says about all of us") not just one "side" of the transatlantic slave trade, although I personally think there is only one side that is to say humanity. He talks about those who bought slave but also about those who sold them (the first one to capture and sell slave in Africa where other africans and we all know it) , and when it says "What does it says about Africa" I think he also raises the question about their responsibility, the ligering divisions and conlicts plaging the continent and in large part responsible for their poor development. Regarding the reparation in my opinion (but I might be wrong) he is not talking about the slave descendents as he says "How does a Ghost forgive", he talks about the fact that none of those who been slave never got any reparation, and even those who've been freed continued to leave prety much in the same conditions by lack of education, land, money etc... The only reparation that matter in my opinion as he says in the beggining is the recognition that Black Lives Matter as much as any other, and if we judge by some statistics about poverty, discrimination, prisons, and the risk of being killed by law enforcement in the US in particular it seems that we're not there just yet. To get there you need to address the root cause of this divided country of this hatred and contempt of some against others. Historicaly slavery has been a crucial part of the new world development, not just the USA, and it is a determining factor which explain a lot of the issues we currently see (All these fake religious justification describing africans as Shem's sons to justify their enslavement, all the evolution and racial hygiene theories putting affricans at the bottom of the evolution ladder and fueling white supremacism, of which Nazism has been the pinecule making a further hierachy among europeans with the Aryan on top). So I think as people of good will, we shouldn't feel accused or threatened by a song but reflect on the potential link between history and current issues.

[@petecanthropus9947]

I couldn't agree more, Renee G

[@vie8894]

BUT AM NOT A CHRISTIAN NEITHER A RACIST 😘

[@MaxSupertramp]

We don't give a shit.

[@axslinger2001]

can't you just write a love song about missing Laura Dern?

[@bijoubijou93]

or a song about people making stupid comments.

[@axslinger2001]

@@bijoubijou93 half of ben harper owes himself reparations

[@po-pil-sky9862]

either, that is a solid sarcastic comment or you need a hug and a friend? i hope it's the former

[@jamesthedude....9584]

A song that doesn't mention love or unity is a song not worth listening to. Division and hate no good.

[@Canadiandude-fg7zh]

Hahahaha

[@willykayak]

.....roll on by James.

[@parkerottoackley6325]

Aww man,,,, you just had to go racist 👎👎 Must be a democrat Unsubscribing,,

[@KingTrashCan012]

Have you ever heard a Ben Harper song lmao

[@gSWG3R]

Please unsubscribe then, absolutely pathetic.

[@wordzfailmebro]

You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies..but I'll rise.

[@wordzfailmebro]

I agree with..pp

[@axslinger2001]

this is a trend with this guy

[@mescalito2178]

why don't you say anything about the unvaccinated being discriminated against?

[@po-pil-sky9862]

Why don't you write that song. i think Ben can sing about whatever the fuck he wants. Slavery reparations should have happened long ago

[@Canadiandude-fg7zh]

🤣😂

[@nokomisnichols]

This is stupid propaganda

[@xrik7865]

Holy fuck